AWS Device Farm supports Managed Appium Endpoint and Environment Features

AWS Device Farm enables web and mobile developers to test their applications using real mobile devices and desktop browsers. Today, we are announcing three new capabilities that make it easier to build better web and mobile experiences: a fully-managed Appium endpoint, support for environment variables, and IAM role integration.

With the new Appium endpoint, you can connect using just a few lines of code and run interactive tests on multiple physical devices directly from your IDE or local host. This feature works seamlessly with Appium Inspector —both hosted and local versions—for all actions, including element inspection. Support for live video and log streaming enables faster feedback within your local workflow.

Environment variables enable test filtering, test sharding, dynamic software version selection, and granular configuration of your test environment. You can pass simple key-value pairs to our test scheduling APIs, which are then configured as environment variables on the test host during runtime. This eliminates the need to maintain multiple test specification yaml files for different test scenarios and simplifies CI/CD pipelines by enabling dynamic test environment configuration.

Additionally, Device Farm test hosts can now assume IAM roles to connect with other AWS services, enabling workflows such as uploading artifacts to Amazon S3 and logging test output to Amazon CloudWatch. Both environment variables and IAM roles can be persisted at the project level, reducing the maintenance overhead of passing them to each run.

These features complement our existing server-side execution capabilities, giving you the scale, customizability and controls needed to run secure enterprise-grade workloads. Together, they help you author, debug, and test your mobile apps faster, whether working from your IDE, AWS Console, or other environments.

To learn more, see Appium Testing, Accessing other AWS resources, and Environment variables in the AWS Device Farm Developer Guide.